Name: The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784-1838
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Author: Sophie Brockmann
ISBN: 9781108421232

portada The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784-1838

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sophie Brockmann

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781108421232

Synopsis "The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784-1838"

In this ambitious new study, Sophie Brockmann argues that interactions with landscape and environment were central to the construction of Central American identities in the Age of Enlightenment. She argues that new intellectual connections and novel ways of understanding landscapes had a transformative impact on political culture, as patriotic reformers sought to improve the region's fortunes by applying scientific and 'useful' knowledge gathered from local and global networks to the land. These reformers established networks that extended into the countryside and far beyond Central America's borders. Tracing these networks and following the bureaucrats, priests, labourers, merchants and scholars within them, Brockmann shows how they made a lasting impact by defining a new place for the natural world in narratives of nation and progress.